The White Darkness
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Eva Maria Fredensborg
When the evolutionary biologist and writer Emma van der Klein discovers that the man she had called granddad her whole life isn't biologically related to her, her curiosity is aroused: perhaps, after all, there is an explanation for her introversion and her passion for science.She packs a bag and drives to Southern Jutland to meet the man responsible for a quarter of her genetic material, but it soon transpires that Harald Eskildsen isn't the kindl old granddad Emma had imagined.
He is a go-getting entrepreneur with a somewhat eccentric lifestyle, but he was once also remanded into custody for killing someone, and when he refuses to talk about it Emma begins to hunt for answers: what kind of person is he? Why did he disappear out of her father's life? And what happened that night almost fifty years ago, when his best friend lost his life?
The White Darkness is a story about family secrets, about the way in which the past literally shapes our lives and about a young woman who chooses to plant her own family tree.
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